Zukertort Opening: Pirc Invitation
A04 1. Nf3 d6
White scores 52.1% here across 796 club games — but the 15.6% who answer e4 score 41.1%, 11 points worse.
What White actually plays here
Across 796 games from a Lichess-derived book of club play, White scores 52.1% in this position. These are the replies people choose, and how each one works out.
| Reply | Games | Share | White scores | Verdict |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| d4 | 304 | 38.2% | 53.0% | holds up |
| g3 | 161 | 20.2% | 59.0% | holds up |
| e4 | 124 | 15.6% | 41.1% | below the line |
| c4 | 78 | 9.8% | 58.3% | holds up |
| Nc3 | 39 | 4.9% | 41.0% | below the line |
| d3 | 30 | 3.8% | 51.7% | holds up |
| b3 | 25 | 3.1% | 56.0% | holds up |
| e3 | 25 | 3.1% | 52.0% | holds up |
"Below the line" means the reply scores at least three points worse than the position does overall. Replies played fewer than 25 times are left out: the sample is too small to read.
Is this costing you anything?
A table of averages cannot tell you whether you go wrong here — only your own games can. Opening Leak Lab reads your Chess.com or Lichess archive, finds the decisions you repeat, and checks each one against this book and a bundled Stockfish.